Research projects
Corley Explorer (2018)
Computational Culture Lab
Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe. Contracted research for State Library of Queensland, 2018. Value $60,000. The State Library of Queensland's Frank and Eunice Corley collection is a unique record of the Queensland suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s, comprising over 61,000 photographs. Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe worked with SLQ...
Curating Photography in the Networked Image Economy (2018-2020)
Computational Culture Lab
Swiss National Science Foundation, Value $340,000.Partners: Lucerne University of Applied Arts & Sciences (CH), The Photographers’ Gallery (UK), Foto Colectania (ES), Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH). Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the project represents the first major European study into post-photographic curating. In...
Digital Imaging Research Facility (DIRF) (2018)
Computational Culture Lab
Rowan Conroy This project has built on our existing strengths by significantly developing the digital imaging capabilities through the purchase of next generation camera systems. The DIRF dovetails into many facets of current and future research at the ANU. Cross campus collaboration as well as external facing research has seen a fruitful and...
Documenting Digital Art: re-thinking histories and practices of documentation in the museum and beyond (2019-2022)
Computational Culture Lab
Arts & Humanities Research Council Value: $760,000 Partners: University of Exeter (UK), LIMA (NL), The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University (UK), The Photographers’ Gallery (UK)Funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, the project represents a collaboration between leading researchers in...
My Climate 2050 (2019)
Computational Culture Lab
Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe Contracted research for Australian Conservation Foundation, 2019. Value $43,000. The Australian Conservation Foundation asked Geoff Hinchcliffe and Mitchell Whitelaw to develop a web-based visualisation tool to communicate localised climate change impacts for a range of sites around Australia. Working...
Research Outputs (2017 - 2020)
Computational Culture Lab
Journal Articles Whitelaw, M. “Mashups and Matters of Concern: Generative Approaches to Digital Collections.” Open Library of Humanities 4(1) (2018), p.26. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/olh.291 Schofield, T., M. Whitelaw and D. Kirk, “Research through design and digital humanities in practice: What, how and who in an archive research project.”...
Transforming the Early Modern Archive: the Emmerson Collection at State Library of Victoria (2019-2022)
Computational Culture Lab
Australian Research Council Linkage Grant LP180100704 Rosalind Smith, Paul Salzman, Patricia Pender, Mitchell Whitelaw, Sarah Ross, Anna Welch. Value $247,000 In 2015, State Library Victoria received the bequest of the Emmerson Collection: over 5000 early modern rare books and pamphlets, previously held in private hands. Bringing together...
Unreal Engine and site-specific augmented reality using natural markers (2020)
Computational Culture Lab
Baden Pailthorpe, Mitchell Whitelaw, Anna Raupach, Geoff Hinchcliffe Epic Games MegaGrant Value: $50,000USD This project aims to develop site specific Augmented Reality (AR) applications for natural settings around Canberra with Unreal Engine. Potential applications include information overlay for ACT Parks visitors, digital public artworks...